Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Retro Recipe Challenge #7

For this edition of Retro Recipe Challenge Laura from Laura Rebecca's Kitchen asked us to prepare a dish with "international flair". As the case with previous events, the recipes need to have been first published before 1985.

As soon as I saw the word "international" one dish immediately came to mind - the uber retro, Swiss-classic, Fondue!

I've sourced this version from the utterly delightful Graham Kerr and his book The Complete Galloping Gourmet Cookbook published in 1973. I remember seeing The Galloping Gourmet on the Food Network in 1999 - back when the Food Network actually showed cooking programs.

i feel like a cheese fondue - right now in the middle of summer, oh this would be sooo good right now. can you get any vacherin cheese in australia? the so called "moitie-moitie" fondue is half gruyere, half vacherin. and very, very delicous!

In fact we have a retro fondue on the tasting menu that my group devised as part of our development rotation. We get to make up our own tasting menu, which we run every Tuesday evening alongside the á la carte menu that we change each week. I haven't made the mix myself yet, but I think I've even seen ale, amongst other things, go into it!

Haalo, fondue rocks! Cheese fondue is perfect especially now that it's getting chilly. Has it been raining non-stop in Melbourne too? I did both cheese and choc fondue with two group of friends within a week, and it was so much fun. We also experimented pairing the fondues with different wines.